Dec 22, 2016

On Christmas Eve all forest animals gathered around the Christmas tree to see its glamour. Just then the most brightest star came down from the sky and settled down on top of the tree. It lightened the whole forest and declared peace all around.

Dec 19, 2016

There they were then, all decorations on the spruce. "Oh, animals will love it!" thought granny and boys in unison. Rabbits, squirrels, mooses and deers, foxes and bears and all birds, welcome to celebrate Christmas!

Dec 11, 2016

And yes there were! Hares' paw prints crisscrossed here and there. A roe deer had walked past too. Suddenly something came down from the nearest tree. Seemingly it was a cone which a nasty squirrel had thrown at boys.

I must admit that I'm too busy to provide a new drawing this week so I'll just share couple of thumbnails of coming posts!As every year I'm starting my own Advent calendar here in DoNichi-Art next week. This time I'm using a story which my mom kindly wrote for me. I'm illustrating it at the moment so that's why I'm a bit busy. So see you next week when I release the first chapter of the story! :)

After long and painful hours I have this painting to represent to you. It's been a while since I painted with watercolors...This is not my best work but I thought I'd still share it. It's not all bad anyway. What pains me the most is that I messed up her pose... I like the background though, and her expression is way better than it was few moments ago. Something positive! :)I think I got fooled by YouTube videos where the painting process looked so easy and fun. It made me find my paints and try what I would come up with them. It turned out to be a disaster yet but I won't give up! I have to keep practicing, that's all.

This is Kumiho, a creature from Korean legends. The word means literally "nine tailed fox".Kumiho fox can take any form. One of them is a beautiful young lady who seduces a man just to eat his heart or liver. Creepy!

This is yesterday's Inktober piece but I share it today since I finished drawing pretty late.The character is Oni, a demon. Once again a supernatural creature of Japanese folklore. I wrote down things that are usually associated to Onis from Wikipedia: red or blue skin, horns, long claws, wears a tiger's skin, carries an iron club around... Here's the result of my imagination then!I'll share today's Inktober piece soon too. I'm already making doodles!

He is a Tengu, one of legendary creatures of Japanese folk religion. I got a bit confused if it's a god-like creature or a demon..? Anyway, Tengus can take a form of a bird. They don't fly though, they teleport themselves!Due to Finnish Wikipedia Tengus are mean creatures who like to tease monks. That's where I got the inspiration for my drawing. He's obviously looking for his next victim!

Oct 16, 2016

I passed few days of Inktober in purpose. This week was crazy and I just couldn't stretch myself more. I named this piece as 'Inktober 16' though it's actually my 12th piece. I ended up using dates in the names than the actual amount of drawings. :)

***I started to draw this couple days ago and was finishing this so I didn't have time to draw more fox illustrations. Here's the picture both B&W and in colors.Let's see if I get back to the fox pictures tomorrow. :)

The art challenge Inktober has started today and here is my first piece! I try to update a new drawing on DoNichi Art everyday during October thanks to the challenge.My style might look a bit messy here because I didn't make sketches beforehand at all.I do this kind of drawings all the time though I keep those doodles to myself. They're just to feed my inspiration usually. I feel a bit insecure since I saw some amazing ink drawings on Instagram already but I try to stay calm. It doesn't have to be so serious. :)I think I'll draw these Black Fox -illustrations for now. I hope you like what is about to come!If you're doing the challenge please let me know. I'd love to see others' art too!